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Let's spread some musical misinformation
- Thread starter pklima
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For Kletzmer you need to boil them in chicken soup.
i had a buddy who boiled strings on my stove once...ONCE. it stunk up my house so bad! i threw the pot away
If you can get hold of a set of Pino Palladino's old strings, boil them up, and drink the water you will gain all his powers and the gig with The Who for the two or three years The Who has left. On the downside, you will also gain a Welsh accent isn't it.
This was done before with Lemmy's strings. The guy who drank the water got so drunk he couldn't gig.
The octave will finally be replaced by the dodecave. The semitones, however, will be equally spaced, so fretted instruments will have to be upgraded with new fretboards.
This is why I play fretless instruments. I saw this coming. Fretting chords on the fretless guitar is a pain, though.
How 'bout the keyless keyboard?
Already been done. The pianless, they keyless piano. It's a painless transition.
Not sure if it's an improvement (speaking as a survivor of grade-school recorder concerts), but I give you...the Bag-less Bagpipe:
Stealth bagpipes, invented by Jock McTavish in 1737 to avoid the tax on importing bagpipes into England. Called the recorder as in 1740 a law was introduced requiring that anyone owning these tax-dodging instruments had to be recorded on a list of ne'er do wells.
Some people complain that in school concerts there are always about four people playing discordantly, but this is actually how they should be played as the horrible, out of tune droning is to replicate the drones of a bagpipe. The recorder should thus never be played singly, although it takes very special skills to play solo, and never in public.
On April Fools Day, jazz musicians only play the correct notes.
DR makes some wonderful bass guitar strings, Black Beauties for instance. But up until now they’ve all been designed for Right handed players. Effective today DR will launch a new subsidiary called DL and they will focus on making Left handed strings.
